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N9171Z

Mooney M20R

N9171Z is a Mooney M20R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1995. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Santa Clara, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 4, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 1, 1995.

Aircraft

Maker
Mooney
Model
M20R · all M20Rs and related versions
Serial number
29-0036
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550 SERIES · 300 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1995
Transponder code
ACB33F (octal 53131477)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 4, 2023
Expires
November 30, 2030
Last FAA action
February 22, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · April 1, 1995
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00745382

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hesterberg Brett
Type
Co-owned
Address
2718 Taft Ave
Santa Clara, CA 95051-6225
Co-owners
Hesterberg Julianne

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 2

1989-06-29Piper PA-34-220T · N-number assigned but not yet registered
1970-06-29Beech C-45H · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N9171Z, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Hesterberg Brett, a co-owned, certificate issued November 4, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated April 1, 1995, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 29-0036 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N9171Z was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-34-220T (serial 3433154, cancelled June 29, 1989); Beech C-45H (serial 52106651, cancelled June 29, 1970). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N9171Z. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data